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From: "Grim" <frothy@fourny.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: C++ compiler?
Date: 14 Jun 1997 14:07:45 GMT
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I'm pretty much at the stage of giving up on PC Codewarrior, especially
after seeing those compiler benchmarks. So I'm trying out gcc

I downloaded the gnu docs to get the compiler options for c++, and wrote a
wee simple c++ program to test it out, not using any psx libraries or
header files

The problem is that 

	gcc -x c++ demo.cpp

doesnt work. It doesnt even try to compile it. It gives 'unrecognised
language c++'. You can check up the docs yourself; you're not even supposed
to need the -x c++ bit. 

In another thread someone says this is gcc 2.7 something then according to
the docs the c++ compiler is integrated and not a separate program. This
makes me think that the compiler has not been built correctly - the docs
dont say anything about c++ not working on MIPS.

Can anyone at sony confirm this is true? Is it deliberate?

Has anyone got further than this? On the gcc recompiles for amiga and
linux, does c++ work there?